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13 issues tagged “Think and Grow Rich”.

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Mindset

Why 'Wanting It Badly' Is the Weakest Thing You Can Do

Principle 1 of Think and Grow Rich: Hill's definition of desire has almost nothing to do with feeling and everything to do with a signed, dated number.

Aug 4, 2026 · 7 min read

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Mindset

The Chapter That Sounds Like Mysticism and Is Actually About Self-Talk

Principle 2: strip the 1937 vocabulary from Hill's chapter on faith and you're left with a surprisingly modern account of belief as a trained state.

Aug 4, 2026 · 7 min read

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Mindset

The Twice-a-Day Instruction Nearly Every Reader Ignores

Principle 3: autosuggestion is the least glamorous chapter in Think and Grow Rich and the one that makes all the others operational.

Aug 4, 2026 · 6 min read

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Growth

Henry Ford Couldn't Answer the Questions. He Still Won the Case.

Principle 4: Hill's argument that general knowledge is nearly worthless is uncomfortable, unfashionable and mostly correct.

Aug 4, 2026 · 7 min read

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Growth

The Two Kinds of Imagination — and Why Only One of Them Pays

Principle 5: Hill splits imagination into synthetic and creative, and the distinction explains why most 'original' ideas are recombinations.

Aug 4, 2026 · 6 min read

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Discipline

Your Plan Will Fail. Hill Says That's Part of the Instructions.

Principle 6: organised planning is the longest chapter in the book, and its central claim is that plan failure is expected, routine and non-fatal.

Aug 4, 2026 · 8 min read

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Discipline

Hill Studied 500 Wealthy People. They All Shared One Odd Habit.

Principle 7: quick decisions, slow reversals. The pattern was so consistent Hill called procrastination the most common cause of failure.

Aug 4, 2026 · 6 min read

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Discipline

Persistence Isn't a Virtue. Hill Wrote It Up as a Four-Part Procedure.

Principle 8: the chapter treats staying power as something you install rather than something you're born with.

Aug 4, 2026 · 7 min read

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Growth

The Original Accountability Group Was Invented in 1937

Principle 9: the Master Mind is Hill's most borrowed idea, and the two conditions that make it work are the ones people drop.

Aug 4, 2026 · 6 min read

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Mindset

The Chapter Everyone Skips — and What It's Actually Arguing

Principle 10: Hill's chapter on transmutation is easy to mock and hard to dismiss once you read it as a claim about redirected drive.

Aug 4, 2026 · 6 min read

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Mindset

You Can't Switch It Off. You Can Choose What It's Fed.

Principle 11: Hill's subconscious chapter is best read as an argument about inputs, defaults and the emotions you rehearse.

Aug 4, 2026 · 6 min read

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Growth

Hill Called the Brain a Broadcasting Station. He Was Half Right.

Principle 12: the most dated chapter in the book contains one observation that survives every modern test.

Aug 4, 2026 · 5 min read

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Mindset

The Final Principle Only Works If You've Done the Other Twelve

Principle 13: Hill says the sixth sense cannot be understood or used until the preceding principles are mastered — and that caveat is the honest part.

Aug 4, 2026 · 6 min read

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